Courier Imports (Clearance) Amendment Regulations, 1997 - 61/97 - Customs - Non Tariff

Courier Imports (Clearance) Amendment Regulations, 1997 Notification No. 61/97-Cus. (N.T.) Dated 24-11-1997 In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 157 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Courier Imports (Clearance) Regulations, 1995, namely :- (1) These Regulations may be called the Courier Imports (Clearance) Amendment Regulations, 1997. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette. 2. In the Courier Imports (Clearance) Regulations, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations), in regulation 2, in sub-regulation (2), for clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :- "(b) The goods where the weight of the individual package exceeds 70 Kilograms; and" 3. In the principal regulations, for regulation 7, the following regulation shall be substituted, namely :- "7. Entry of goods on importation. - The authorised courier shall make entry or goods imported by him by presenting to the proper officer a bill of entry in Form III, Form IV or as the case may be in Form V appended to these regulations : Provided that the authorised courier, or with the concurrence of the authorised courier, the consignee or a Customs House Agent on behalf of the consignee, may file a bill of entry in the form prescribed in the Bill of Entry (Forms) Regulations, 1976 for clearance of any of the imported goods : Provided further that for the following goods, the entry shall be made in the form prescribed in the Bill of Entry (Forms) Regulations, 1976, namely :- (a) goods in respect of which an exemption from the levy of duty applicable to hundred per cent Export Oriented Units or to units in a Free Trade Zone, or Export Processing Zones, Software Technology Parks, Hardware Technology Parks is claimed; (b) goods imported under the Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme or Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme or any other Duty Exemption Scheme; (c) goods imported under any Customs or Central Excise notifications containing end use conditions; (d) goods imported against any other licence issued under the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992); (e) goods imported by or on behalf of a person who is related to the consignor within the meaning or rule 2 of the Customs Valuation Determination of Price of Imported goods) Rules, 1988; (f) goods where the CIF value of the consignment is one lakh rupees or more; and (g) goods in respect of which the Assistant Commissioner directs filling of a bill of entry in such form : Provided also that the goods falling under clauses (a), (b) and (c) of the preceding proviso may be cleared by presenting a bill of entry in the said Form III, Form IV or as the case may be, in Form V, on payment of duty."